Hi all, happy holidays.
Hereís a matte Iím working on for the cgchannel challenge. Its a nodal pan which I hadnít encountered before so am trying to understand. I now have it tracked correctly and am setting up the projections.... question; is it not necessary to set up 3d geo for the projections due to the lack of parallax, so simple cards will do? or do you create the geo as normal in this instance cliff/buildings/bridge etc. appreciate any help, feel free to crit the matte as well. thanks :) dave

This looks really promising and I think you should take care of those blotchy black areas in some shadows, show more details?

For the parallax, you would need a basic mesh for the mountain, bridge and the buildings and I think for the trees you could get away with multiple cards but then again it would be better to have the very foreground tree on the right have a basic mesh too.